The Tumbela Coalition

[Wyld@Heart]

(07-31-2022, 08:18 PM)Duco Ndona Wrote: Males are not the cornerstones of lion dynamics. They are not their leader or anything like that. The pride will remain just as stable if he is there than if he wasn't. Especially a well oiled experienced pride like the Othowas. 

Then with all due respect, I'm afraid you don't have much experience or knowledge of how it actually works in reality. There is no pride without a stable pride male, it's absolutely the cornerstone of lion dynamics because of the way males are hardwired in that they will instinctively kill off cubs and sub adults to bring the lionesses into estrus and then to mate. Their duty, and their normal instinct, will be to remain in that territory even while expanding and that alone provides the stability that a pride needs to grow its cubs. 

Males come and go, prides in a territory can stay for generations but if you take territorial males out of the equation the constant influx of new males will be deadly to cubs, prides will be forced to become nomadic more and more to save their cubs causing a domino affect and conflict as different prides start coming into contact leading to constant stress and further loss of cubs. The whole pride and territorial system will collapse.

All of this is known. Reply